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Veteran maestro Nikša Baresa directs a stupendous Gurre-Lieder in Zagreb

By Jonathan Sutherland, 26 September 2016
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Reviewed at Vatroslav Lisinski Concert and Congress Hall, Zagreb on 24 September 2016
Programme
Schoenberg, Gurre-Lieder
Performers
Nikša Baresa, Conductor
Michael Hendrick, Tenor
Adela Golac Rilović, Soprano
Ozren Bilušič, Narrator
Siniša Stork, Bass
Stjepan Franetović, Tenor
Dubravka Šeparović Mušović, Mezzo-soprano
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Croatian National Theatre Opera Orchestra
Croatian National Theatre Choir
Music Academy Choir of Zagreb University
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Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.